Transportation systems are "internally" complex systems, made up of many elements influencing each other both directly and indirectly, often nonlinearly, with many feedback cycles. Apart from the internal complexity, transportation systems are closely interrelated with other systems, which can...

Various alternative approaches are available in the literature for modelling trip distribution. The objective of this paper is to provide a review of this literature with the view of summarising the general nature of the current state of practise and what is now available for practical modelling...

The effective planning of residential location choices is one of the great challenges of contemporary societies and requires forecasting capabilities and the consideration of complex interdependencies which can only be handled by complex computer models. This book presents a range of approaches...

Preface -- 1 Employment Location Models: An Overview -- Part I: Macro-Scale Approaches -- 2 Employment and Labour in Urban Markets: The IRPUD Model -- 3 Modelling the Economic Impacts of Transport Changes Experiences and Issues.- 4 A Population-Employment Interaction Model as Labour Module in...

The State-of-the-Art in Building Residential Location Models -- Stated Preference Examination of Factors Influencing Residential Attraction -- DRAM Residential Location and Land Use Model: 40 Years of Development and Application -- The DELTA Residential Location Model -- The MUSSA II Land Use...

The link between TGV service and local economic development is a very controversial subject. A lot of effects are quoted in the literature. But their birth is linked to a lot of different conditions. In this paper, we focus on the city size. Analyzing a TGV service in a territory as service...

Competitiveness cluster policy devotes the advent of the concept of competitiveness of local territories<np pagenum="256"/> in France. The aim of this paper is to think about the limits of such policies which associate competitiveness of firms and of territories in which they are located. On one hand,...